Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 04:46:46 01/01/05
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On January 01, 2005 at 07:40:58, Harald Faber wrote: >On December 31, 2004 at 15:21:23, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >>Again I agree. Some years ago there was no learning/book learning at all and >>that was a big missing...which made a big difference with the human players. >>Now that we have them we need to improve the learning features and not to turn >>them off! > > >There is danger that one might test the best learner. Yes, but I think a chess program is a chess player and so it should be tested in the best mode, suggested by the programmer, and without removing anything. The learning feature is part of the program. > > >>>I'm getting suspicious that most of the improvements in new programs is just >some "book-up" tricks against certain programs to gain quick Elo points. >Disabling learning will allow these "tricks" to work continiously while book >learning/learning will eventually nullify them. > > >This works only if one program does not learn while the opponent does. >Kurt and some others actually take care that either both have learning on or >off. Well, no if a new program is including some learning for a specific opponent; it is true that both do not learn, but one already did! > > >>Sandro Sandro
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